A Prospective Determination of the Incidence of Perceived Inappropriate Care in Critically Ill Patients

oleh: Rohit K Singal, Robert Sibbald, Brenda Morgan, Mel Quinlan, Neil Parry, Michael Radford, Claudio M Martin

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Wiley 2014-01-01

Deskripsi

BACKGROUND: Health care providers’ perceptions regarding appropriateness in end-of-life treatments have been widely studied. While nurses and physicians believe that rationing and other cost-related practices sometimes occur in the intensive care unit (ICU), they allege that treatment is often excessive.